Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Garbage and Fake 'Articles' About GNU and Linux, Courtesy of Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms
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Today there is a frustrating amount of FUD online that wasn't published by humans but instead generated by LLMs, likely composed by Microsoft bots that love to say or "hallucinate" (lie) bad things about Linux. In short, fake 'articles'...
We'd like to begin with Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU: (more above)
It is LLM slop again:
He even did this twice on the same day. Here's another:
Only slop, with the word "Linux" thrown in:
But wait, it gets worse. There are many fake 'articles' about Linux that say it has a "back door" and GNU (GRUB) is also bad, apparently.
Here's a quick summary of LLM slop we found, maybe trained on half a dozen articles that seem real although Eduard Kovacs chose a slop image (for likely real text, stating there's "malware named Auto-Color, which allows full remote access to compromised devices, targets North America and Asia").
Here's LLM slop from Brittany Day, a Serial Slopper:
And here's some more that's 100% slop (fake text):
Anti-Linux LLM slop again:
These two articles are fake and those two sites work in pairs [1, 2], yielding slop images with fake text that tarnishes the reputation of Linux and now GNU:
Speaking of something that tarnishes the reputation of Linux, watch who's active again, hijacking the brand:
So now "Linux" is also some "trans thing". Riding or hijacking someone else's name. Remember "Linux Gold"? █